This book offers an exciting new take on the relationship between law and power, exposing the delicate balance between great powers and small states that is necessary to create and enforce norms across the globe.

This book offers an exciting new take on the relationship between law and power. The 1856 Declaration of Paris marks the precise moment when international law became universal, and was an aggressive and successful British move to end privateering forever – then the United States' main weapon in case of war with Britain.

Authors: Buraczewski, Dariusz, Damek, Ewa, Mikosch, ThomasCovers fields which are not available in book form and are spread over the literatureProvides an accessible introduction to a complicated stochastic modelA readable overview of one of the most complicated topics on applied probability theory

Authors: Srinivas, Virinchi, Mitra, PabitraPresents an accessible explanation of the role of power law degree distribution in link predictionDescribes a range of link prediction algorithms in an easy-to-understand mannerDiscusses the implementation of both the popular link prediction algorithms and the proposed link prediction algorithms in C++

Authority without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox (Studies on Law and Social Control) by John Owen HaleyEnglish | December 1, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0195092570 | 272 pages | PDF | 16.5 MB

This book offers a comprehensive interpretive study of the role of law in contemporary Japan. Haley argues that the weakness of legal controls throughout Japanese history has assured the development and strength of informal community controls based on custom and consensus to maintain order–an order characterized by remarkable stability, with an equally significant degree of autonomy for individuals, communities, and businesses.